Ilona Dougherty, founder of Apathy is Boring and recent recipient of Canada’s Top 100 Women in 2015 has done some very interesting research around the shift in the number of students attending university. In her recent article, she found that ‘the number of students enrolled full-time in university has more than doubled since 1980, even though there are…

Here we are, the latter half of 2016. Cars are starting to drive themselves, devices are connecting and communicating with each other, and work…well work is bigger than it has ever been before. Why? Because we can work in more places than we could 10 years ago, sometimes during hours outside of traditional scope. As…

Co-authored with Connor Beaton and originally posted in Influenvice.com This week, 11,414 athletes step into the global spotlight. Win or lose, for many the dream was to make it to the most prestigious athletic event in the world. They did it. These Olympians have trained countless hours, sweat endless beads, and put their sport- their passion, above all else. Having…

‘The Top 100 Places To Work’, ‘Best Cultures in America’, ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’, and all of the other ‘Top X’ lists are accolades many companies strive to be awarded. We all want to create a great place to work, no doubt, but what does it mean to be on one of these lists?…

The way we work and talk about work is changing. No longer is work just something we punch in to and out of, it is an identifier of who we are what we like to do. More so now than ever though, volunteering is become a major factor in determining what job we take and…

I first wrote this short piece as a joke, but then realized that I was so guilty of overusing powerful words that it wasn’t a joke at all. Yesterday when I went to my favorite restaurant, I ordered my favorite meal, and had the highest expectations of what it was going to be. It wasn’t life…

Co-written with Sam Sawchuk In order to start recruiting the best talent for your company, you need to flip the model on its head. The job ‘description’. That document we’ve all seen when applying for a job (often while applying for tens of others at the same time) is typically a two-page document that doesn’t…

Well, it has to be. We’re living in a world where we have to state that something is true before we say it. Why does it have to be that way? At risk of offending other people, and in the interest of being transparent (the other word of 2016) and authentic (SEE! HERE IT IS…

Co-written with John Kennedy at True Calling Canada. In a recent CBS News piece, President of the Marketing Firm Yankelovich, Jay Walker-Smith stated that the number of advertisements we see in day has gone from roughly 500 in the 1970’s to as many as 5000 a day today. What this tells us is that the world we live in today…

Co-written with Simon Howard of DRYVER. Millennials. Ugh. The worst, right? I mean, we all know that they can’t work, live in their parents’ basement and play xbox or watch Netflix all day, can’t hold a job, and aren’t loyal. Or was it that they are the generation that wants too much at work, can’t get away…